Southwest Research Institute's novel Compact Dual Ion Composition Experiment (CoDICE) instrument aboard NASA's Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) spacecraft has successfully collected ...

Fermi Explorer, a proposed low-cost private mission to Alpha Centauri, seeks to address a question that’s already been ...

Researchers at Cornell University have assembled a shortlist of rocky exoplanets sitting inside their stars’ habitable zones, ranking them as plausible destinations for an interstellar probe that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist’s impression of Nasa’s Voyager 1 satellite (Nasa) Nasa is rushing to find a solution to prevent its first interstellar ...

Cornell lightsail mission produced the first free-flying lightsail deployment from a CubeSat-class spacecraft: gram-scale ChipSat flight computers separated from the host spacecraft, transmitted ...

Eventually, we'll launch a mission dedicated solely to studying an interstellar object. When that day comes, which one should we look at first? Reading time 8 minutes With all we’re finding out about ...

Compact sensor-packed probes, propelled by laser- or Sun-powered sails, could be humanity's first scouts to another star system. Reading time 4 minutes The recent confirmation of an atmosphere around ...

Even at this early stage in our spacefaring age, humanity has already begun sending probes that will eventually reach other solar systems, even if that was not their original intention. Five robotic ...

NASA has released a long-awaited collection of new photos of comet 3I/ATLAS, the interstellar visitor that has been making headlines since its discovery in July. Several NASA spacecraft snapped the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Voyager 2 launched into the solar system 49 years ago on August 20, 1977. Together with Voyager 1, the two probes are now billions ...